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railway station Code District Elevation m Distance between Colombo Fort Km; Colombo Fort: FOT Colombo: 4.87 0 Secretariant Halt SCR Colombo: 2.72 Kompanna Veediya: KPN Colombo: 4.87 3.87 Kollupitiya: KLP Colombo: 3.96 5.22 Bambalapitiya: BPT Colombo: 3.65 7.22 Wellawatte: WTE Colombo: 3.35 9.32 Dehiwela: DWL Colombo: 2.43 12.02 Mount Lavinia ...
Kandy: Suduhumpola Randles Hill ... List of railway stations in Sri Lanka, ... (currently the National Railway Museum, Colombo) D. Dematagoda, ...
On 30 April 1867, the first train, a goods service, completed the journey from Colombo to Kandy, with the first passenger service commencing on 1 August 1867. [3] [4] [5] Initially, there were two train passenger/mail services, leaving at the respective ends of the service at 7:00am, with the overall journey taking 4.5 hours. [3] [5] The ...
[1] [2] It is the 65th railway station on the line from Colombo Fort railway station and is located in the Matale District in the Central Province. It is 148.6 kilometres (92.3 mi) from the Colombo Fort Railway Station and 27.64 kilometres (17.17 mi) from the Kandy Railway Station. The station was opened on 14 October 1880 following the ...
In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka Railways, under the leadership of B. D. Rampala, started to name major passenger services. [1]Old Udarata Menike express train The Old Yal Devi train at Kurunegala, travelling between Omanthai and Colombo Fort The Deyata Kirula ( Uttara Devi) intercity express train at Kurunegala, travelling between Kankasanthurai and Colombo Fortit will run only up to Anuradhapura ...
The Puttalam line (originally called the North-Western Line) is a 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge [2] railway line in the rail network of Sri Lanka. The 133 km (83 mi) railway line begins at Ragama junction and runs through the major towns along the north-west coast of the country, through to Periyanagavillu. It has forty two stations along ...
Udarata Menike was numbered No. 15 for the Upward journey to Badulla and No. 16 for the Downward journey to Colombo. In the 1960s, The Badulla-bound train departed Colombo at 9.30 a.m., [3] while the Colombo-bound train left Badulla at 5.45 a.m. The Train was equipped with 9 Carriages with an Observation Saloon attached to the end.
It is 133 kilometres (83 mi) from the Colombo Fort Railway Station and 18.2 km (11 mi) from the Kandy Railway Station. The station was opened on 14 October 1880 following the construction of a branch line from Kandy to Matale. [3] [4] It was established to primarily serve the growing number of cacao and tea estates in the area. In the early ...